Jagged Alliance 2

One of the best turn-based-strategie games i have ever played. Love this game

It's been awhile since I played so I can't comment on how well it's aged, but this game was amazing.

I loved this game since its initial release but on my macbook pro 9,2 running OSX 10.9.1 the game just wont boot. Re-installed the os and nothing. It tries to start, then just completly stops. Works on my PC and windows laptop. Great game, 4/5 due to issues on osx

Makes me wonder if some people are playing a different game than I; best tactical game my a**! The game IS charming, voice acting is really beyond the charts in quality, and the NPCs are very well done in personality and design. When you are hiring mercenaries and handling the map screen the game is just perfect. It has some UI/UX problems but for a 1999 game, it's bearable. But as soon as you get in combat it all collapses around you. None of your mercenaries can hit shit, it doesn't matter if marksmanship skill is 15 or 99, they will miss 90% of the time. It doesn't apply to your enemies, because of course not! Everytime you get spotted, enemies get a free turn where they can shoot you twice THEN run into cover and maybe even get a third shot. Meanwhile, you barely get enough action points to walk a couple of steps before everyone from the opposite team has another turn. The only strategy available is the good old save scumming behind a wall, waiting for your enemies allign in the corner and get piled up. That's "tactics" everyone! Not to mention that as soon as you get hit, your chances to hit get even lower. This game also has the worst healing mechanic I've ever seen in my life. First aid kids only stops bleeding, and to heal your party, you have to spend days on map screen waiting for your medic to heal everyone, which leads to contracts expiring, requiring you to renew them spending more money. But wait! Now your mercenaries need to sleep a couple of days more, because they're tired of doing nothing. This game has more mechanics to fck you up than to entertain you. Sometimes you'll be asking yourself, "am I fighting Deidranna soldiers, or the game mechanics?" Fallout Tactics, considered to be a poor tactical game, is so much better than this in every aspect, that JA2 actually made me wanna reinstall that and had a proper tactical RPG experience. About 1.13 mod: despite the name, it isn't a patch, it's a complete overhaul of everything said here and more.

JA2 is a fantastic game, unfortunately its unplayable for me due to it constantly freezing/crashing at the same moment of time in a game. Reload the game, the same freeze/crash at the same time. There's workarounds on the forums, but they don't work for me. One star because it doesn't work. Would be five stars otherwise. Well worth buying if it's playable for you. I'm Windows 7 64 bit, your mileage may vary.